Workers at Brooklyn Central Laundry, which washes millions of hospital linens a year, fight a plan to privatize the job.

More than 90 percent of day laborers in Newark say they have worked for employers who failed to pay them promised wages, a study finds.

New York City’s unemployment rate fell for the fifth month in a row, to 9.6 percent, remaining below the national average.

Along and around Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, day laborers sneaked peeks at the games on televisions in delis and bakeries as they waited for contractors to hire them for $100 a day.

A judge ruled that the M.T.A. violated the law by laying off hundreds of subway station agents without conducting public hearings.

A helpful guide for those worried by the looming threat of a strike by doormen.

New York on Less: Students at the Career Academy of New York, a trade school, has experienced a boom in enrollment prompted mostly by people looking for a leg up in the bad economy.

In response to the indictments, the national organization put the New York chapter under emergency supervision.

Arbitrators said that despite the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s withdrawing its demand for one-person trains, the Transport Workers did not have to make health-care concessions.

A man whose electrical company held city streetlight maintenance contracts pleaded guilty to making illegal payments to a former Queens assemblyman and union executive.